Time flies like flowing water.

There were several heavy snowfalls in Chang'an City one after another, covering the blood that had been shed in the dark night layer by layer, and many people died in Chang'an this winter, but there were more and more smiles on the faces of ordinary people.

Those who died in the night, their bones buried in the snow, had more blood on their hands than they were.

The melodious bell rang in the direction of the Dongfang Gate, and it could vaguely reach the Qi Mansion, and Xu Mingyuan, who got up early in the morning, carried a wooden ladder and carried a bucket of paste towards the gate. Behind him is Xiao Xia, who is wearing a brand new green jacket and holding a red couplet in his hand, with a smile on his face.

Qi Yueru was wearing a fox fur, standing in the white courtyard, looking up at the sky in the southwest slightly, with a little sadness and longing in her eyes.

In the blink of an eye, it has been more than a month since Xu Mingyuan entered Chang'an, and today is the last day of the first year of Tianbao, and it is the New Year.

Xiao Xia stepped forward and opened the door, Yi leaned against the door frame, turned his head to look at Qi Yueru in the courtyard, but did not come in and said anything, but took the wooden ladder in Xu Mingyuan's hand, put it on the door frame, and climbed up directly.

"It's early." Xu Mingyuan dipped the brush in the paste, handed it to Yi, and said with a smile.

Yi reached out and took the paste and slowly brushed it on the door, "I know that there are a lot of things to paste today, so I came over to help earlier." ”

Xiao Xia stood aside and looked up at Yi, and teased, "I want to see my young lady earlier." ”

Yi's hand holding the brush stiffened slightly, and he continued to brush, but he didn't answer Xiao Xia's words.

Xu Mingyuan shook his head with a smile and turned to look outside. There is no sun today, but it is not dark. A few days ago, it snowed heavily for several days, and the snow was more than a foot thick. Someone cleared a road about a foot wide on the road for passers-by to walk.

Xu Mingyuan looked at the sky in the southwest, it was snowing in Chang'an, and he didn't know if it was snowing in that small city.

Today, Chinese New Year's Eve, will the master himself eat something good, or eat the food sent by Zhou Binjie to the mountain?

There is also the one in the academy, in previous years, during the Chinese New Year, the doors and window grilles of the Tongyuan were all pasted by him, and they were also like Yi. I ran away early in the morning, and I don't know if I really respect Master Zeng, or because of something else.

That city is home, it seems that this year's New Year, I can't go home, I don't know if I can go back in the future.

Every festive season, Xu Mingyuan glanced back at the girl who was independent of the yard, she thought she was also missing Qi Haobo.

Qi Yueru's illness has almost healed. After the seven days of acupuncture, she did not have any more convulsions. The medicine on the prescription given by Qin Zhaoyu had to be taken for more than a month, and after eating, there was no need to worry about this disease.

And with the cooperation of Xu Mingyuan and Qi Yueru. All kinds of tricks and tricks were put together, and Qin Zhaoyu finally relented and promised to treat Bai Molou. But we'll have to wait until the next year.

Qi Yueru has been learning medical skills with Qin Zhaoyu these days, and she has mastered a lot of acupuncture. The medicinal properties of hundreds of herbs were also recorded.

Qin Zhaoyu seemed to have picked up a treasure, and he couldn't close his mouth with a smile every day. Even Yi, who had never been treated well by him, recently sent Qi Yueru to Sun's mansion, and he agreed to enter that small courtyard.

Therefore, Xu Mingyuan sometimes handed over the task of buying vegetables to Yi, which saved him a lot of effort, so he could start reading books and prepare for the spring festival in three months.

However, Qin Zhaoyu originally promised Xu Mingyuan 13,000 taels of silver, but he took it back and didn't give a cent, so Xu Mingyuan continued to buy vegetables and clean the yard to repay the money.

In fact, more than 10,000 taels of silver, Xu Mingyuan really has it now, this month, the account has been almost collected, more than 100 Qinglou wineries, and many gangs' small treasury, so that Xu Mingyuan has enough 150,000 silver.

With 100,000 yuan in his waist, although Chang'an is full of rich businessmen, he can also be called a wealthy person.

When he entered Chang'an a month ago, Xu Mingyuan only had a few taels of silver left, but he didn't expect that there would be endless silver now.

The last Qinglou on that ledger had a name written on it last night, and dozens of evil gangs were wiped out in the past month.

With Wuya's meticulous deployment of each operation, as well as his understanding of the major gangs, a group of six people, only once when they destroyed the lair of a big gang in Xicheng, did they suffer some minor injuries because of an accidental second-grade swordsman, but they still managed to kill that person together.

In the past month or so, Xu Mingyuan's internal strength has not increased much, but he has learned a lot of killing skills from Leng Ye and Chu Yue, whether it is the skills against the enemy or the strength is much stronger than before entering Chang'an.

However, being an assassin is really not suitable for Xu Mingyuan, he has many and miscellaneous martial arts tricks, but there are few tricks suitable for sneak attacks, and he prefers to fight people head-on.

And that day, in the West Market, he fought with the second-grade swordsman who appeared unexpectedly, but Xu Mingyuan realized a trace of wind in the danger.

In addition, outside the imperial city that night, Liu Shaoqun broke a thousand horses alone, and then climbed the imperial city with Huang Run and Deng Tingting, and saw a real battle of first-class products, which also inspired him.

However, what he has realized now is only a little bit of skin, and he can't do the subtle means of the sword that Zeng Qingyi showed in Fengqi Mountain at the beginning, but only to make the sword momentum faster.

The difference can only be said to be a difference in talent. I don't know if the current Zeng Qingyi can use Hongxue to make a sword and come back, and truly comprehend Li Taibai's sword to ask the sky, Xu Mingyuan can't help but have some expectations.

After all, when he was on the Beili grassland, Li Taibai was wearing a tattered robe, holding a black wine jug in one hand, and took a broken scabbard to show him a flying sword to take a sheep's head, but there was no beauty in it, which was why he was reluctant to practice this flying sword later.

If Zeng Qingyi is allowed to make that flying sword, step on the red snow, and walk in the sky, it will be a very beautiful picture.

Looking at Yi and Qi Yueru these days, Xu Mingyuan will often think of Zeng Qingyi. Although she has loved to bully him since she was a child, she loves to protect him in front of others.

Xu Mingyuan had been unable to figure it out before, and Zeng Qingyi himself may not have figured it out, but now he understands it a little, it is a little strange, and he has a feeling that it should be like this.

"Xiao Xu, paste." Yi's voice came from behind, breaking Xu Mingyuan's thoughts, and when he turned his head to look, the door link on one side had been pasted, and Yi moved the ladder to the other side, looking at him with a brush.

Xu Mingyuan handed over the paste, so that Yi could dip the brush in the paste and correct whether the couplet was straight.

This couplet is still written by him, the upper couplet: Spring is full of flowers in the world, and the lower couplet: Fulin Courtyard Four Seasons Chang'an Horizontal Criticism: Celebration and peace.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was remembered on the street, and from far and near, it stopped at the gate of Qi Mansion.

"Young Master Xu, your letter!" A somewhat familiar voice came. (To be continued.) )